It’s tough to live never satisfied. Jesus said in John 4 that all who came to Him would “never thirst again”. Pastor Bill Johnson talks about the importance of living satisfied in Jesus but also staying hungry for more.

it’s tough to live never satisfied

yeah in some ways when i cultivate

dissatisfaction though that doesn’t feel

like

that can leave me depressed and stuck or

that deal so i haven’t found success in

cultivating dissatisfaction

yeah it’s it is a strange thing i i

don’t like

i i don’t like part of what we’ve drug

into

yeah you know for 15 years we’ve drug

this thing along with this that i’m not

convinced is accurate yeah the hunger

for more

is the uh you know jesus said in john 7

you know this river you will be

satisfied

yeah you know john 4 and 7 both this

whole thing of the the river of god

you’re going to you’re going to drink

from me yeah

and your thirst will be quenched so

there’s something there experience of

abundant life

in the present not a lot not a life

that’s yeah i think

i think because hunger has been such a

big deal to get us breakthrough

i think people are afraid of being

that that acknowledging being satisfied

or full

is being satisfied in a complacent sense

yeah

and i think there’s such a fear of

complacency

that we sometimes put ourselves in a

place of unbelief

of continuously praying for things we

already have so it’s

and thankfulness i think it plays that

role i mean thank god this is a way of

being satisfied with you that’s what’s

been accomplished and

and it’s one of the ways to to uh

celebrate the present

yeah without getting stuck there yeah

yeah it’s

it’s a challenge and i feel like we got

to learn it for the next phase too

on how to how to be satisfied how to be

you know how to be full yeah but still

pursuing you know

how is it that i can be full because i

you know eric brought a word here

a year or so ago uh about if you’re

continually dissatisfied

uh there’s you’re you’re dysfunctional

there’s something dysfunctional in your

relationship with god

and that’s right he’s absolutely right

yeah uh we’re

we’re not to we’re not to foster that

we’ve got to

we’ve got to be full and hungry

yeah you know it’s it’s a weird deal

people ask me you know i i want you know

would you pray for me i want

more hunger for the word i go you know

what you

in in the natural you get hungry by not

eating in the kingdom you get hungry by

eating yeah

and so there’s this real paradox i’m

full because i’ve i’ve

i’ve filled myself up on god but it’s

created a hunger for more so it’s yeah

it’s kind of that that deal but

absolutely and i think it didn’t chris

somebody touched on just that idea that

when you’re

asking questions of the lord like one

answer leads to ten more questions in

some ways so

exactly that’s a way of kind of

celebrating that what god’s done and

then telling him what about this or how

does this work

yeah pressing into that even yeah more

for

what the lord has on these topics that’s

right every revelation

satisfies but draws us

into more because every revelation

brings with it more questions

yeah yeah that’s true you said something

made me laugh in staffing but

something about the lord loves diversity

but not if the diversity is between uh

passion and apathy

yeah yeah it’s it’s it’s sometimes

that ring true like yeah some christian

experience is either passion or apathy

but the lord loves diversity like yeah

not not that no

no no that’s right yeah that’s right

it’s diversity among people who are

passion for god

yeah yes diversity among people that are

abandoned to christ

that’s beautiful to watch you know we

just had david hogan

he’s just he’s such an amazing and

marvelous man

he’s really different than than you

or me he’s really different than john

arnott or some of these other heroes

that we have and yet they all have such

a unique place in this thing

and they all are equally abandoned to

the lord yeah you know so diversity

within that abandonment is beautiful

so i just right after you said that i

had read some about troy palamala the

the safety for the pittsburgh steelers

but he converted to orthodox

christianity you know it’s just so

interesting to see this radically

passionate guy

flies around the football field praise

why he’s playing football

i think i think the article said he

crosses himself even before we play

but again it was that uh he’s passionate

there’s a diversity in the expression

he’d been with some monk somewhere you

know and just was touched by their lives

and was like that’s what i want to

that’s what i want to do so i like it

diversity and passion

that’s fun but not the apathy

that’s the one the lord doesn’t like

yeah i’d love some passionate and some

apathetic christians in your family yeah

no yeah people always you know whenever

they see somebody zealous they ask

they’ll ask questions of me i’m sure

they ask of you

well where’s the balance in this no

balance isn’t between passion and apathy

yeah

that’s the it’s not between joy and

depression there’s no

balance between those things you know

between water and strychnine you know

just an equal

no no it’s all all one but yeah let’s

learn how to walk in wisdom but

yeah anyway it’s fun